Dr. Christian Rinke

ARC Future Fellow

c.rinke@uq.edu.au

Dr. Rinke’s main interests are genomics, ecology, and phylogeny of uncultured microbes. He applies single-cell genomics, the separation and sequencing of single bacterial and archaeal cells, and metagenomics, the direct sequencing of environmental samples. Both methods are perfectly suited to explore uncultured microbes, also know as microbial dark matter.

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Archaeal Dark Matter and the Origin of Eukaryotes

This project aims to investigate the highly controversial origin of eukaryotes and thus all multicellular life within Archaea, a domain of single-celled microorganisms.

Tree of Life

Taxonomic classification of living organisms and understanding their ancestry is the basis of all biology.

2018

Chuvochina M, Rinke C, Parks DH, Rappé MS, Tyson GW, Yilmaz P, Whitman WB, Hugenholtz P. 2018. The importance of designating type material for uncultured taxa. Systematic and Applied Microbiology.

Rinke C, Rubino F, Messer LF, Youssef N, Parks DH, Chuvochina M, Brown M, Jeffries T, Tyson GW, Seymour JR et al.. 2018. A phylogenomic and ecological analysis of the globally abundant Marine Group II archaea (Ca. Poseidoniales ord. nov.). The ISME Journal.

Rinke C. 2018. Single-Cell Genomics of Microbial Dark Matter. Microbiome Analysis. :99-111.

Parks DH, Chuvochina M, Waite DW, Rinke C, Skarshewski A, Chaumeil P-A, Hugenholtz P. 2018. A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life. Nature Biotechnology.

Dr. Christian Rinke